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Comment Letâ(TM)s have even more labels (Score 1) 215

There should be labels like:
The artist doesnâ(TM)t own the master recording
The artist doesnâ(TM)t own the publishing
The artist has never made any money from this album

Just so consumers know when itâ(TM)s okay to pirate an album because the artist doesnâ(TM)t get a dime anyway.

Comment Because it sucked. (Score 1) 241

Prime Day deals sucked this year. Most of the deals it showed me were the same prices the stuff sells for any other day. The best discounts were on Fire TVs and Kindles, both of which I bought on Prime Day in previous years. The only discount that was interesting was a jacket I had looked at the day before which got 40% off.

Comment It’s not going to happen. (Score 2) 41

Apple’s developers can’t even get Siri to pronounce words consistently. Half the time it says “Amazon” or “remastered” to me Siri mispronounces the word. I laugh at the idea that Apple can turn Siri into a serious competitor to ChatGPT. I know that some people will say that this is a new team in a different country, they’ll build something great from scratch. But if Apple was capable of making a good Siri they would have hired good people the first time around!

Comment Facebook doesn’t have much else. (Score 1) 54

Most of what I see on Facebook now is just bots posting stuff and engaging in conversation so that they look like real accounts when used in an astroturf campaign. Earlier today I commented on a post by a musician I follow, who responded asking me to DM her—obviously her account has been hacked and is controlled by a bot. Another person tried getting me into a conversation, that person was obviously a bot. There are tons of accounts posting photos, those seem to be bots running on a schedule. Lots of videos are just bots scraping videos from other places and posting them to Facebook; the videos often end early because the bot screwed up and didn’t get the whole thing. Most of my friends and family got sick of the bots and stopped using Facebook. Groups are slowly becoming less active as users get tired of all the bots on Facebook and stop posting. At some point Marketplace postings will be most of the content posted by actual humans.

Comment Re: Gnome is a credible competitor to Apple? (Score 4, Insightful) 105

MacOS is absolutely not tailored to running one full screen program. Itâ(TM)s tailored for designers, developers, and video editors who bounce back and forth through multiple applications all day long. Thatâ(TM)s why it has Mission Control for switching between software and desktops. Itâ(TM)s common for graphic designers to have Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, a music player, and a browser open all the time. People who just want to run one piece of full screen software are either gamers running expensive PCs or office drones who spend their entire day in Word or Excel.

Comment You figure out a strategy and pay for it! (Score 1) 73

Big tech companies are the ones that need all these electricians. Big tech companies are also some of the richest, most profitable, highest market cap companies in the world. How about instead of leeching off of taxpayers they be the ones to come up with a training strategy and pay for it?

Comment America has hopes and prayers! (Score 1) 115

China won’t beat America by educating generations of great engineers. Because America has something better—prayer! The USA will keep defunding public schools and steering kids to parochial schools where they’ll learn to solve problems with the help of Jesus. Just get on your knees, bow your head, and ask The Lord to help you develop new software and hardware and he’ll solve your problems. MAGA!

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